Taking that into account, the legendary author should be hard to scare.

The scene contained no special effects beyond corpse-like make-up, yet viewers had never seen anything like it before.

The scene contains several common horror tropes, including a chase, and being trapped in a car.

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Stephen Kingis famously a fan oflow-budget horror movies, feeling that big-budget effects can detract fromhorror.

It is not surprising that he felt this scene was so effective.

Source:Entertainment Weekly

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Zombies crossing a field in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)

The zombies shuffle out of the woods at nighttime in Night of the Living Dead.

George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead did more than just invent the modern zombie, it revolutionized the horror genre. Following a small group of humans who hide in a secluded farmhouse when the dead begin to rise and crave human flesh, Night of the Living Dead examines the relationship between humanity and paranoia in times of crisis.

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